What do you usually do in lightroom?

[jtso]

Since I am a newbie in playing with RAW file, I am curious what everyone is doing in lightroom. So far for my images, I set the auto lens correction, auto adjust tone, and auto whitebalance. In addition, for 3200iso photos, I reduce luminance noise to 100 value. I find that sometimes the auto whitebalance is not as good as original, so I ll probably leave that out in the future.

I guess the lens correction is always a must, except for fish eye.

 

[macjim]

Oh, now there's a question... Well, I use Lightroom 3 to import RAW photographs from my cameras to edit, catalogue and share. Editing; depending on the photograph I'll decide whether to make a copy an convert to B&W. Then I'll adjust the photograph for sharpness, cropping, vignette etc until I'm happy with the result. Cataloguing; I'll add a keyword it two to describe the photograph, and use smart folders to keep related photos together. Sharing; well, I can and do email them, show them on Flickr via the various groups I'm in and any other ways. I rarely print photographs via Lightroom as ice yet to figure out how to get printed, what I see on my MacBook Pro. Haven't yet figured out to how to set up a profile. There's other things that can be done with Lightroom that I've yet to try but I find it to be one of the best photo software programmes out there.


Cheers, Macjim.

 

[mr_slava]

Didn't pay attention to the product before and used it as you are for photo conversion, nothing else. But this was while ago before I have found and read tremendous book called "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers" by "Scott Kelby", I believe issued in July 2010. You may probably find it on web in PDF format (if you know where). This book made the Lightroom my #1 choice and I do not use anything else any longer. If I need something special I use plug-ins, but this not happen very often. Another source for tips on the product is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips . Try to find the book and you will be surprised what can you do with tool you have!

Best regards,
Slava